Daily Session Outline and Assignments

Welcome to 7th grade Advanced Language Arts. This course encompasses a 
correlated study of reading, language development, literature, composition, 
listening, and speaking based upon the adopted District Academic Standards 
for Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking.  Content of this course will 
allow students to explore concepts in greater depth with more challenging 
experiences than the regular language arts class.  This course also requires 
the reading of six Essential Literature and three advanced Essential 
Literature titles during the school year. Again, welcome aboard!

4th Nine Week Period

Goals and Objectives: Students Will Be Able To:

*Read for knowledge and for enjoyment
*Demonstrate vocabulary and word attack strategies to read and comprehend a 
variety of texts.
*Comprehend and construct meaning from written, heard, and viewed text
*Make predictions about the outcome of a given passage
*Draw inferences from select passages
*Make critical judgements
*Identify forms of poetry; free verse, blank verse, rhymed verse and ballads.
*Identify and use poetic terms: alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, 
simile, metaphor, speaker and poet.
*Analyze the effects of sound. 
*Develops fluency in reading poetry
*Identifies similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in context.

Week 1

3-24 No School

3-25 Begin Poetry vs. Prose; Figurative Language-Similes vs. Metaphors
     H.W.

3-26 Poetry vs. Prose-Personification vs. Hyperbole
     H.W.

3-27 Poetry vs. Prose-Sound Effects-Onomatopeia vs. Alliteration

3-28 Other Sound Devices-Figurative Language Test

Week 2

3-31 TCAP Review

4-1  TCAP Review

4-2  TCAP Review

4-3  TCAP Review

4-4  TCAP Review

Week 3

4-7 TCAP Review

4-8 TCAP Testing

4-9 TCAP Testing

4-10 TCAP Testing

4-11 TCAP Review

Week 4

4-14 Spelling Lesson 16; Begin "Bat 6" Ch. 1-3

4-15 Bat 6 Ch. 3-4;